Asian and European markets extended their latest rally on Thursday following across-the-board records on Wall Street where traders were buoyed by another day of strong earnings.
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A Seoul court, on Thursday, ordered Samsung Group heiress Lee Boo Jin to provide assets of 8.6 billion won (S$10.4 million) to her estranged husband in a divorce from the ex-employee of a Samsung affiliate.
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Thousands of people celebrated gay rights with song, dance and a march in Seoul Saturday, amid rain and boisterous protests by conservative Christians.
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Tuesday accused the United States and South Korea of intensifying war preparations after it launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) earlier this month.
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“Gangnam Style,” the quirky South Korean video that spawned a global dance craze and went so viral it nearly broke YouTube, has finally been dethroned as the most watched video.
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Teenage male model Han Hyun-Min’s long legs and powerful strut have made him a rising star on South Korean catwalks, but his agent knew there would be a problem in the ethnically homogeneous country: he is half black.
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South Korea intends to build a museum in memory of wartime sex slaves for Japanese troops, a government minister said on Monday (Jul 10), re-igniting a perennial diplomatic thorn in the two neighbours’ sides.
READ MORENorth Korea on Sunday lashed out at a live-fire drill the US and South Korea staged in a show of force against Pyongyang, accusing Washington of pushing the peninsula to the “tipping point” of nuclear war.
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Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam city has won a global award for its Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, becoming the first African city to win the prize.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-In insisted Thursday he was ready to meet the North’s leader “wherever and whenever” to ease tensions after its first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Pyongyang warned it would be a “piece of cake” to destroy “gangster” South Korea, state media reported Thursday, as it raged against Seoul for a joint missile drill with the US following its landmark intercontinental ballistic missile test.
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The US has confirmed that North Korea tested a long-range missile which some experts believe could reach Alaska.
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North Korea has fired a ballistic missile from its western region, say Japanese and South Korean authorities.
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US President Donald Trump said it was time for China to take decisive action against North Korea after Pyongyang’s latest ballistic missile launch, urging Beijing to “end this nonsense once and for all”.
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President Donald Trump declared that the US had run out of patience with North Korea over its nuclear drive Friday as he welcomed South Korea’s new leader Moon Jae-In to talks at the White House.
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President Donald Trump welcomed South Korea’s Moon Jae-In Friday for White House talks on how to rein in Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, with the leaders at odds on whether to isolate or engage the regime.
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South Korea’s dovish new President Moon Jae-In — who backs engagement with the nuclear-armed North — heads to Washington this week for talks with his hawkish US counterpart Donald Trump, as Pyongyang defies international sanctions to accelerate its missile programme.
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Thousands of protesters marched near the US embassy in Seoul on Saturday, accusing President Donald Trump of “forcing” South Korea to deploy a controversial American missile defence system opposed by China.
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The woman at the centre of South Korea’s corruption scandal, Choi Soon-Sil, was handed a three-year jail term for bribery Friday in the first of a string of criminal cases against a figure dubbed the “female Rasputin”.
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A South Korean court sentenced Choi Soon-sil, a longtime friend of ousted President Park Guen-hye, to three years in prison for bribery in the first of a string of criminal cases against her.
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The Angolan capital Luanda has knocked Hong Kong off the top spot in an annual survey by Mercer Consulting that ranks the cost of living for expatriate workers in world cities.
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North Korea released US student Otto Warmbier “on humanitarian grounds”, state media said Thursday, two days after he was evacuated from Pyongyang after falling into a coma while imprisoned in a labour camp.
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